Dear iMechanicians,

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01983

Beta-sheet protein structures and domains are widely found in biological materials such as silk. These assemblies play amajor role in the extraordinary strength and unique properties of biomaterials.  In our new work, we employ simple Langevin-based models to investigate the behavior and the collapse of these structures.

This is the preprint of an article that will appear in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.112946).

Effective Response of Heterogeneous Materials using the Recursive Projection Method

Xiaoyao Peng (Carnegie Mellon University), Dhriti Nepal (Air Force Research Laboratory), Kaushik Dayal (Carnegie Mellon University)

There is a research opening for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on lattice materials.

The post holder will be located in Central Cambridge Cambridgeshire, UK.

Location: The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (http://mie.njit.edu) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (http://www.njit.edu). 

Cyclic Plasticity of the As-Built EOS Maraging Steel: Preliminary Experimental and Computational Results

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/4/1232/htm

Jian Cheng, Zheng Jia*, Teng Li*, A constitutive model of microfiber reinforced anisotropic hydrogels: with applications to wood-based hydrogels, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138 (2020) 103893 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103893)

I have a vacancy with my colleague Prof. Verstappen at the University of Groningen for a PhD student to work on the computational design of magnetically-driven soft robots (see details in the attached description). Candidates preferably have hands-on experience with finite element development and implementation. If you are interested, please send a CV before March 21 at p.r.onck [at] rug.nl.

An urgent annoncement for the PostDoc position (at the University of Haifa, Israel) for the FEM modelling project on hydrologically-triggerred  earthquakes and their aftershocks. The candidates with knowledge of solid mechanics (elastoplasticily) and poroelasticity (preferably) are invited to submit their applications asap.  Advanced fellowships is guaranteed.

Journal Club for March 2020: Molecular Simulation-Guided and Physics-Informed Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Viscoelasticity

Ying Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

1.       Introduction